All are welcome to the next SOARA General Meeting on Monday, October 20 at 7pm at the Norman P Murray Center in Mission Viejo. This month’s presenters are from Land Ops, a group that combines radio communications, off road driving skills, navigation and teamwork. Presenters will be SOARA member Jim Biram K6JKB and the founder of Land Ops Chris Doering KI6QBM. Hope you can be there!
Upcoming Activities
- Ham Radio License Exams - 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, April 15, 2024
- Membership Meeting - 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm, April 15, 2024
- SOARA Elmer Saturday - 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, April 20, 2024
- SOARA Board Meeting - 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm, April 22, 2024
- SOARA 50th Anniversary Special Event - 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, May 18, 2024 – May 19, 2024
ARRL Audio News
Today in History
1943 - Meat (784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's), butter and cheese rationed in US during WW II
1961 - After a 4½ year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted of treason in Pretoria
1971 - 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
1975 - Only 2nd time Islanders beat Rangers
1992 - Ice Pairs Championship in Oakland, California won by Mishuktienok and Dmitriev (CIS)
1996 - 10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men win
1869 - Aleš Hrdlička, Austro-Hungarian anthropologist and curator (US National Museum), born in Humpolec, Austria-Hungary (d. 1943)
1927 - Arthur Ravenel Jr, American businessman and politician (Rep-R-South Carolina), born in Charleston, South Carolina
1927 - John R. Vane, English pharmacologist (Nobel 1982), born in Tardebigg, Worcestershire (d. 2004)
1938 - Bert de Vries, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (CDA), born in Groningen, Netherlands
1946 - Billy Thorpe, British-Australian musician (Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs - "I Told The Brook", "Mashed Potato"; solo - "Children of the Sun"), born in Manchester, England (d. 2007)
1974 - Marc Gené, Spanish auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans 2009), born in Sabadell, Spain
1058 - Stephen IX [Frederik van Lotharingen], 1st Belgium Pope (1057-58), dies
1578 - Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)
1953 - Arthur Fields [Abraham Finkelstein], American singer-songwriter (Aba Daba Honeymoon), dies in a fire at his nursing home residence at 68
1970 - Lev Kuleshov, Russian filmmaker and film theorist (Po Zakonu, founder of Moscow film school), dies at 71
1980 - Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 74
2001 - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899)